BHUTTO SHIRIN AMIR BEGUM (1931-2003)

BHUTTO, SHIRIN AMIR BEGUM (1931-2003) In 1951, at the age of 23, while he was still a student in Bombay, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto married his cousin Shirin Amir Begum This was an arranged marriage from which the couple had no children Shirin Begum spent only a brief time with her husband in Bombay, India She returned to her native village Naudero after Zulfikar Ali Bhutto went abroad for studies The two did not live together after his return from America and Britain Bhutto went on to marry Nusrat, who became his second wife, but he did not divorce Shirin Begum since Islamic law allowed a man to have up to four wives Shirin Begum died of cardiac arrest on 19January 2003 in her village She was buried in Garhi Khuda Buksh Bhutto, the family graveyard, near the grave of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto